Vintage shots from days gone by!

Downtown Decatur, IL. 1958. "Miss Decatur".

 

Curtis Turner in one of his few Championship car attempts.

 

I know I told him to be at the door, but this is a bit much.


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This monument is in Maracaibo Venezuela in the Via Perija, Zona Industrial area if I recall correctly. I used to pass it everyday on my way to work. I was told it was put there because so many people died in the crash. The direction this picture was taken from, there is a restaurant/deli where I would buy arepas con jamon y queso (o cualquier cosa) and a drink for lunch, or even breakfast, damn they are good.

 

Why would this young lady pose in front of that old converted cargo box ?
Proud of her kid in the pedal-car but living in poverty. Maybe fruit pickers ?

 

Mr. Google says this is a young Peter Lorre.

 

^^^You are correct.

 

Back when the passenger was necessary to keep the front wheels on the ground.
These were the early days in the development of 'The Fundamentals of Weight Distribution'

 

^^^^ Still being done in many third world countries.

 

I think it is the frame rail you are seeing beside the exhaust

 

RIP funnyman Don Rickles



During the filming of the movie Bikini Beach, Tommy (Ivo) lined up with Don Prudhomme in the famed Greer-Black car. Here Don Rickles (Big Drag) does a flag start.

 

Lucy! She's still there in Margate.

 

Man those bug screens were coo looking huh? Don't know why they aren't popular now!

 

Bug screens did have a resurgence in popularity within the "street rod" world, at least in the cars that were actually driven any distance.
Myself, I like the looks of a deuce grille full of bugs more than the screens.

 

i`m not the Ford specialist, but it seems to me like a 56 bird with a fairlane trim. looks not too bad, i think